Netherlands €2  2011 Commemorative. Erasmus of Rotterdam. Uncirculated

Netherlands €2 2011 Commemorative. Erasmus of Rotterdam. Uncirculated



$16.50

Netherlands 2011 Commemorative €2. Erasmus of Rotterdam

This is the first commemorative €2 coin in Dutch history. It pays tribute to one of the great Dutchmen: the humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam on the 500th anniversary of the publication of his greatest work, The Praise of Folly (

Lof der Zotheido

r or

Moriae Encomium

), a satirical critique of society and the Catholic church.Mintage: 4,000,000